On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:49:34PM +0100, Mihaela wrote:
At this stage it doesn't really sound promising. Besides, as of 5 months ago, this old MS fanboy has finally given up faith is Microsoft, and moved over to Ubuntu - which I love. So in a sense it feels a bit odd adding features that encourage people on to Vista, because really I want MS to go away, and everybody to join me on Linux. I'm being silly - it doesn't really work that way - I'll add support for it if it becomes practical.
I used to have Ubuntu64 on this machine along with WinXP (on AMD64 3000) until the routine win C: reformat after which Ubuntu was inaccessible. I guess boot partitions got corrupted? When I tried to install Ubuntu again it crashed during installation. Any idea what I might do to get Ubuntu back?
Try using a Live CD, and then see if you can mount the old drive. If so, then you could probably rebuild the boot partition. Or might be simpler to copy off the files you want to keep, and then reinstall.
Can't say wrt the crash during installation without more details, but if you try it again and it crashes, maybe ask on answers.ubuntu.com, or try a different version of Ubuntu. The 32-bit version tends to be more heavily tested than the 64-bit version, so if worse comes to worst that could be another option.
Bryce